INDEX Bianciardi, Sandra Crawford, Jen Lloyd, Bronwyn Ross,
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Jen Crawford was born in Patea, Taranaki, in 1975 and spent her early years in New Zealand and the Philippines. She moved to Australia to study, eventually completing a PhD in Creative Arts through the University of Wollongong, for which she wrote on images of the child in New Zealand literature. Her first short collection of poetry,'tigerbutter', appeared in the collaboration Fathoms (scarp productions, 1996) alongside work by Australian writers Lucy Alexander and Porsche Herbert-Funk. In 2000 Five Islands Press published her narrative poetry sequence Admissions, which was then short-listed for the Anne Elder and Dame Mary Gilmore awards. Poems from her forthcoming collection have been published in Jacket, Landfall, brief, Poetry New Zealand, Takahe, Turbine, cordite, foam:e, Famous Reporter, Bravado and Oban. She has taught English and writing subjects at the University of Auckland, Massey University and the University of Wollongong. Last year Jen accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in 2009. She has also published the chapbooks: Napoleon Swings (Auckland: Soapbox Press, 2009) and Pop Riveter (2011) |
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